Nanomedicine strategies in conquering and utilizing the cancer hypoxia environment

Y Pan, L Liu, X Mou, Y Cai - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cancer with a complex pathological process is a major disease to human welfare. Due to
the imbalance between oxygen (O2) supply and consumption, hypoxia is a natural …

The role of imaging biomarkers to guide pharmacological interventions targeting tumor hypoxia

B Gallez - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Hypoxia is a common feature of solid tumors that contributes to angiogenesis, invasiveness,
metastasis, altered metabolism and genomic instability. As hypoxia is a major actor in tumor …

A bioinspired scaffold for rapid oxygenation of cell encapsulation systems

LH Wang, AU Ernst, D An, AK Datta, B Epel… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Inadequate oxygenation is a major challenge in cell encapsulation, a therapy which holds
potential to treat many diseases including type I diabetes. In such systems, cellular oxygen …

In vitro oxygen imaging of acellular and cell-loaded beta cell replacement devices

M Kotecha, L Wang, S Hameed, N Viswakarma… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease that leads to the loss of insulin-
producing beta cells. Bioartificial pancreas (BAP) or beta cell replacement strategies have …

Oxygen-guided radiation therapy

B Epel, MC Maggio, ED Barth, RC Miller… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Purpose It has been known for over 100 years that tumor hypoxia, a near-universal
characteristic of solid tumors, decreases the curative effectiveness of radiation therapy …

Assessing tumor oxygenation for predicting outcome in radiation oncology: a review of studies correlating tumor hypoxic status and outcome in the preclinical and …

F Colliez, B Gallez, BF Jordan - Frontiers in oncology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Tumor hypoxia is recognized as a limiting factor for the efficacy of radiotherapy, because it
enhances tumor radioresistance. It is strongly suggested that assessing tumor oxygenation …

Hypoxia-driven adenosine accumulation: a crucial microenvironmental factor promoting tumor progression

P Vaupel, A Mayer - Oxygen Transport to Tissue XXXVII, 2016 - Springer
Systematic studies on the oxygenation status of solid tumors have shown that the
development of hypoxic/anoxic tissue subvolumes is a pathophysiological trait in a wide …

Absolute oxygen-guided radiation therapy improves tumor control in three preclinical tumor models

I Gertsenshteyn, B Epel, M Giurcanu, E Barth… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Clinical attempts to find benefit from specifically targeting and boosting resistant
hypoxic tumor subvolumes have been promising but inconclusive. While a first preclinical …

In Vivo Partial Oxygen Pressure Assessment in Subcutaneous and Intraperitoneal Sites Using Imaging of Solid Oxygen Probe

N Viswakarma, E Siddiqui, S Patel… - … Engineering Part C …, 2022 - liebertpub.com
The purpose of this study was to assess the natural partial oxygen pressure (pO2) of
subcutaneous (SC) and intraperitoneal (IP) sites in mice to determine their relative suitability …

Hypoxia imaging as a guide for hypoxia-modulated and hypoxia-activated therapy

JR Brender, Y Saida, N Devasahayam… - Antioxidants & Redox …, 2022 - liebertpub.com
Significance: Oxygen imaging techniques, which can probe the spatiotemporal
heterogeneity of tumor oxygenation, could be of significant clinical utility in radiation …